I think I am having the EXACT same issue as ajohnson.
I upload the avatars just fine. I am not using the network enabled code in WP3 and my avatars are not showing to crop. they begin at the custom directory files/avatars/1 … etc.
It was a fresh WP3-b1 install
Fresh Buddypress 1.2.3 install on top of it.
If you’re using Thesis as the parent theme, you’ll have to enable BP support for your theme.
Two options:
1) Use the BP Template Pack plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
2) Manually add BP support to your theme.
thekmen has added BP support to a child theme of the Hybrid framework:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/testing-new-theme-hybrid-as-a-parent#post-40217
You can check out what he did as a guide.
There are no instructions I’m afraid. You have to dive into the BuddyPress code.
Just looked at the plugin, here’s some sample code:
add_action('bp_before_registration_submit_buttons', 'display_recaptcha', 9999);
add_action('bp_signup_validate', 'check_recaptcha_bp');
You’ll have to write your own validation function for BP. I’ve called the new function check_recaptcha_bp(), but you can call it whatever.
For more info, look at buddypress/bp-core-signup.php, I’ve given you the tools needed to walk, now run with it 
Awesome work! Always glad to see BP being put to good educational uses.
Odd.. My posts are not getting posted!
I’m trying again.
Yessssh. I was looking at a cached version of the site and the one you were looking at was horrible. I’m not sure what happened to that theme, but I switched it to the one I was looking at.
http://www.longislandmartialarts.org/wsblog/
Take a look when you get the chance, I’d appreciate any feedback and help.
BTW I just bought wordpress and buddypress for dummies.
I realise now that it isn’t the tags for Buddymatic theme that is the problem – I discovered the buddypress tag was missing from A Thematic/Buddymatic Child Theme 1.0 by Ron Rennick – I added it and the message disappears, however it seems that the tag needs to be all in lower case in order to work.
This became clear because Coffee with Friends 1.0 by Daisy Olsen already had Tags: Thematic, BuddyPress but this didn’t get recognised until it became Tags: thematic, buddypress, buddymatic – I added the buddymatic tag for completeness
I have looked in the config files for both bbpress and buddypress but the LANG default is blank
Any clues please
Thanks
Gibby
Should I notify the WP ReCAPTCHA author? He seems to be rewriting the plugin for WP 3.0. I’m just looking for the instructions for “hooking it in” to the registration page. I can’t seem to find them anywhere. It sounds like if I had MU and BP running together it would work fine, but I only have BP, so I need the hack…
Here’s the tutorial about how to do that:
How to Add the Global Facebook Like Button to BuddyPress Profiles and Activity Stream Items –
http://wpmu.org/how-to-add-the-global-facebook-like-button-to-buddypress-profiles-and-activity-stream-items/
@svenl77
There is a problem with version 1.8…it prevents blog creation.
It was fine…then I upgraded this morning and tried to create a new blog. no luck. The creation page is there, but, when you hit “create blog”, it takes you to an empty blog directory page (and the buddypress admin bar is gone). In the backend, the new blog is there. But, if I try to go to it’s dashboard, An error message comes up saying that the blog was not installed correctly, please contact administrator.
I deactivated the plugin and could then create blogs fine.
So I deleted if and loaded in a fresh copy…thinking that somehow I messed up the settings. Nope. The fresh copy kills blog creation too.
I’m not on the default theme, but not of the registration/blog creation commands are different.
Anyone else experiencing this?
i am experience the same problem, when created group blogs it will install to for example to http://www.example.com/groupblog1 as opposed to groupblog1.example.com, there is a flaw in the plugin ability to create subdomains, I don’t think you can change your buddypress structure for blogs to http://www.example.com/blogs once you have chosen which path to you, to my knowledge I don’t think you can go back and change it, unless someone knows how to, I would love to know
I decided to checkout the svn 1.3-bleeding edge version of buddypress. It installed like a dream. Activated immediately and was able to choose options.
dev.layneheiny.com appears to be working with WP 3.0 beta 2.
Heh. That’s exactly what I did here, except by I did it by hand. Wish I’d known the plugin existed!
I used it for forums, of course, and you can too, if you do similar edits to:
forums/index.php
groups/single/forum.php
groups/single/forum/edit.php
groups/single/forum/topic.php
in your child theme, so it survives future upgrades.
Actually, I’m trying to get BP features to work with the Thesis Theme. I need to use the registration/activation feature, and several other features like Members and Activity.
What I tried to do is create a custom template with the register.php code, and assigned it to a page called Register.
Anyway, I’ve looked for days on topics to integrate Thesis and BuddyPress. So I decided I wanted to try and get these plugins to work. I’ve gone down the Thesis road pretty far.
@Tiptap
How were you able to setup different user types in buddypress then show a different profile template based on that user type?
I’ve been looking for a solution for this and have found no promising plugins or answers.
I’m sorry I cannot be of much help with your question, but I do hope you can shed some light on this different user type integration.
Yes, here’s how you do it for items in the activity stream. Open entry.php and then paste this in there kind of around where you see the favorite buttons – probably you want it only available if a user is logged in:
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php bp_activity_thread_permalink() ?>&layout=standard&show-faces=true&width=450&action=like&font=arial&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:px"></iframe>
This will work for you but you should then style it so it doesn’t take up weird amounts of space. I’m writing up a whole tutorial on how to use this with BuddyPress. It will publish tomorrow at 10AM eastern time. I’ll post a link here.
captcha and math tools do not really help fighting spam.
spammer register manually and then feed your blog automatically remote via xmlrpc.
i am running a wordpress mu + buddypress site and had about 40 spammer-registrations a day with lots of spam. then i deactivated xmlrpc via renaming xmlrpc.php in wp-root, result was only user registrations (without content spam). about four days later spammer registrations were reduced from 40 to about three a day (easy to delete), seems that the spam-apps noticed that the rpc doesn´t work and deleted my site from their targetlists, entering their messages manually is to complicated for them….
Looks like you’re attempting to use a BP 1.1 theme with BP 1.2.
You might have some luck with using the BP Backwards Compatibility plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/
But I’m not sure.
If that doesn’t work, you might want to develop a new child theme off the new BP default theme.
FYI – Buddypress Template Pack plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
techguy’s got the right idea.
I think we’d all agree. If you check out Jeff’s twitter he said possibly this weekend for the BP privacy plugin he’s working on. Here’s his BP profile: https://buddypress.org/developers/jeffsayre/ Maybe throw a donation his way and he’ll feel more motivated to finish it sooner;-)
Stick buddypress from the end of the line of tags to the front?
Stab in the dark here. 
That’s correct it is a 10-minute job if you know how. Didn’t mean to sound elitist.
If you can notify the plugin author, some of us on the forums can point him in the right direction.
